Having trouble losing weight? Want to know the answer to "How many calories do I burn in a day?" Learn the answer without a calculator and how you can use the answer to drop more weight.

1. How Many Calories Do I Burn In A Day? -
And Learn How To Manipulate It
When you’re deciding on your weight loss battle plan, you usually start with the first question
being, “How many calories do I burn in a day right now? If it’s a whole crap-load, then I’m not
going to work that hard. If it’s hardly anything to begin with, then I’m going to give up now while I
still have some dignity.”
Ok, so that’s more of a joke, but I’ll honestly attest that probably most people that attempt to
lose weight, give up just that easily. They see where they are, they see where they want to be,
and then they say “Screw it.”
Well, you might be interested to learn that the number of calories that you’re burning each day
right now may only require a very small adjustment to result in you losing as much weight as
you choose.
And while there are quite a few equations, formulas, and online web applications that will help
you to analytically discover your daily caloric burn, I’m going to show you a much simpler way
to formulate this answer and how you can use this knowledge to improve your current fat loss
efforts.
Calculating Your Daily Calories Burned Depends On Your BMR (Basal
Metabolic Rate)
The beginning, middle, and end of this idea of burning calories throughout the day all has to do
with your BMR (Basal Metabolic Rate). Your BMR is the rate that determines how many calories
you need in order to continue working your basic functions.
These basic functions constitute most of your vital bodily operations like breathing, sleeping,
breaking down food, pumping your heart and blood, and even adjusting your internal
temperature. That means everyone’s BMR is always working regardless of how fast they claim it
is.
Realistically, most people’s BMR runs at about the same pace. Of course their are special
cases that’ll break the bell curve like individuals who burn calories abnormally fast and it’s
difficult for them to put on weight. (I’m very jealous of those people)
The opposite effect can also occur with strangely slow metabolisms, but for the most part,
everyone is in the middle, running at nearly the same pace when you don’t take into account
physical activity lifestyle levels. Your physical activities for the day are the other part of this
calorie-burning equation.
There Are Just Too Many Factors To Get A Perfectly Accurate Figure
(For Your Daily Burn)
Determining how many calories someone burns in a day is insanely complicated because there
are almost too many factors and variables to take into account. Ultimately, your daily calories

2. burned is decided by a combination of your BMR (using your current weight) and your daily
physical activity.
If you do a quick search, you can find a number of those calories burned calculator sites on the
web that you can visit to type in all sorts of data about what you did during the day and they’ll
spit out a number that may or may not be relatively close.
Most of those web apps are made with simple JavaScript that adds up values based on various
fitness rules like:
1. How many calories in a pound? A pound of muscle burns about 6 calories each day.
2. A pound of fat burns about 2 calories each day.
3. Walking burns between 80 - 100 calories per mile.
4. If you’re male, your result should be between 2,000 - 2,400 calories a day.
5. If you’re female, your result should be between 1,800 - 2,100 calories a day.
The first 3 rules have enough research to probably be referred to as facts. I’m not so sure about
4 & 5.
But after you take the time to remember everything that you did, try to figure out how many
jumping jacks you did, and how many steps you took around the office...it’s almost not worth it
after I explain the simple way to get just as close of an estimate.
BMR Equations And Formulas - Complicated, But There’s A Simpler
Way...
While I do have to give credit to those calorie burning apps for... well... existing...so people can
use them, I only hope that they’re loosely based on one of the established BMR equations or
formulas instead of just “adding up all the calories”.
The first three equations that really attempted to answer the question "How many calories do I
burn in a day?" are the Harris-Benedict, Mifflin, and Katch-McArdle equations. All three took into
account the person's weight, height, and age, but it was the Katch-McArdle formula that was
first to integrate lean body mass into the equation.
Now, for an imaginary woman who is 55 years old, 130 lbs (59kg), 5’ 6” (168cm) tall, and 30%
body fat, these three formulas would produce the following results:
● Harris - Benedict Equation = 1272 calories
● Mifflin Equation = 1204 calories
● Katch-McArdle Formula = 1263 calories
So, for this imaginary woman to maintain her body weight, she needs to consume around 1246
calories each day. That’s what her body demands based on her current stats. (Her stats are
also imaginary)
The Simple Formula To Answer “How Many Calories Do I Burn In A
Day?”

3. Now I know that I’ve been dangling a carrot in front of your face up to this point, but now
I’ll reveal how you can formulate the answer to your calorie-burning question. A quick, yet
somewhat accurate, estimate of your BMR can be done by taking your current weight in lbs and
multiplying by 10.
Yea, it’s really as simple as that. You’re probably looking at the average of the three equation
values (1246) and the value from this simpler version (1300) and thinking “Hey, that’s 54
calories off! This isn’t accurate at all!”
Calm down people. What you need to remember is that anything having to do with measuring
the speed or power of one’s metabolism isn’t going to be anything better than an educated
guess.
At least with this method, you’re within 50-100 calories and you don’t even need a calculator.
Your Next Question Is Probably “How Many Calories Should I Eat To
Lose Weight?”
Well the simple answer is less than the number you generated. The number of calories that you
burn each day is how many calories it takes to maintain your current weight. This is how much
energy your body needs in order to continue sustaining at your current weight.
If you increase this amount, you’ll gain weight, and if you decrease this amount, you’ll lose
weight. It’s actually that simple. The tricky part is coming up with a good plan to decrease your
caloric intake without sending you spiraling into insanity or some sort of eating disorder. You
might hear people ask the question like "How many carbs per day to lose weight?", but it's all
about the calories. Don't make things more complicated by picking apart the food groups when
you really need to focus on frequency and portion size.
When you decrease your caloric intake, you’re actually creating a calorie deficit. You can, of
course, do this with any combination of dieting and/or exercising. Personally, I like to do both for
the fastest results. And I’ve found that the quickest and most sustainable way for me to reduce
my calories is by fasting two or more times each week and using the tricking your metabolism
approach.
My fasting strategies are based from Eat Stop Eat, and I think it’s great because it’s a
technique that I don’t really have to think about. With normal dieting, you have to be concerned
with portions of every meal, and eating only “healthy foods”, and I just get fed up with it. With
fasting, I just cut out calories for a 24-hour span a few times each week, and I lose weight. (And
I’m still losing it)
Knowing how many calories you burn each day is the first step to losing weight. You need to
know where you start before you can even decide where you want to go.
About The Author
My name is Kyle and I keep in pretty good physical condition, staying lean and toned at the
same time using some unorthodox rapid weight loss methods that you won’t hear from the

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